There's an old political story that contends that once elected, a member of Congress has to start raising X number of dollars every day, from day one, just so they can fight for re-election. And the story goes on to tell us how much our electeds hate this grubbing for money, how they'd much rather be doing the people's business.
Well I call bullshit or brainfart.
It's one or the other, because to my thinking, Congress and the White House have a golden bullet to kill that awful, demeaning, un-civic money grovelling routine.
Single Payer Insurance. H.R. 676.
See, the way I figure it, Congress and the White House pass a single payer health insurance plan, a plan that guarantees the delivery of care remains in private sector hands, well kind readers, they just won about 70% of the vote from here to eternity.
But there is no advocacy for HR 676. There is no fierce advocacy from Democratic leadership for even the compromise that became the starting position (sound familiar Stimulus followers?). There is neither the interest nor the talent in the MSM to push for such a thing, the cacophony of the pundit scrum is too enticing. It must come from our leaders. But it does not.
Beyond my sickness for the bullshit of the so-called health care debate is the firm belief that folks in Congress and the White House know the *economic reality* of what single payer health care does for a country's GDP. They must know.
I am left with only two possible conclusions for the White House and Congress's baffling refusal to deal with the crippling economic reality of this failed American Health Industry in a moral, fiscally sane manner.
They must either be lying about hating to suckle corporate ass for money, and so they hold off on passing the singular legislation that will transform the electorate for generations.
Or I'm wrong about them knowing what a financial boon it is to citizens, businesses small and large, and the overall entrepreneurial health of the nation, and they're just really fucking dumb.